BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) on Friday served closure notices on three city-based small industries for violating pollution control norms.
According to the pollution panel, while one factory has been accused of discharging waste water without treating it, the other two are running without obtaining the mandatory consent certificate.
Aditya Car Care, a workshop for servicing of big vehicles has no effluent treatment plant and the waste water is discharged into the drains and roads without treatment. The other two are Suberban Industries, which makes LPG cylinders and Pioneer Industry, which binds and prints papers. Both of these units do not have the consent certificate from the pollution board. Any industry, which generates air, water and noise pollution, comes under pollution panel's glare.
"We had been receiving complaints against Aditya Car Care for discharging waste water. It had been warned and given enough time to set up ETP to treat waste water but no steps have been taken till today," said OSPCB regional officer (Bhubaneswar) Hadibandhu Panigrahi.
The paper unit is located in a residential area and the printing and binding work generates lot of noise. The residents had lodged a complaint against the industry too. After closure notice is served, the sealing exercise will be carried out with the help of Khurda district administration. "The power and water supply to the units will be discontinued on the day of sealing," he added.
According to the guideline of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the vehicle workshops and LPG cylinder making units are treated as red category industry and they will have to install the ETP while the paper industries come under orange category.
A week ago, the pollution board listed five city hotels to penalise them for evading to pay the statutory pollution charge also known as environmental compensation. Out of the 50 hotels, which evaded the fee, 45 have already deposited. The amount varies between Rs 50,000 and Rs 1 lakh.
According to the pollution panel, while one factory has been accused of discharging waste water without treating it, the other two are running without obtaining the mandatory consent certificate.
Aditya Car Care, a workshop for servicing of big vehicles has no effluent treatment plant and the waste water is discharged into the drains and roads without treatment. The other two are Suberban Industries, which makes LPG cylinders and Pioneer Industry, which binds and prints papers. Both of these units do not have the consent certificate from the pollution board. Any industry, which generates air, water and noise pollution, comes under pollution panel's glare.
"We had been receiving complaints against Aditya Car Care for discharging waste water. It had been warned and given enough time to set up ETP to treat waste water but no steps have been taken till today," said OSPCB regional officer (Bhubaneswar) Hadibandhu Panigrahi.
The paper unit is located in a residential area and the printing and binding work generates lot of noise. The residents had lodged a complaint against the industry too. After closure notice is served, the sealing exercise will be carried out with the help of Khurda district administration. "The power and water supply to the units will be discontinued on the day of sealing," he added.
According to the guideline of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the vehicle workshops and LPG cylinder making units are treated as red category industry and they will have to install the ETP while the paper industries come under orange category.
A week ago, the pollution board listed five city hotels to penalise them for evading to pay the statutory pollution charge also known as environmental compensation. Out of the 50 hotels, which evaded the fee, 45 have already deposited. The amount varies between Rs 50,000 and Rs 1 lakh.
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